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Federal Agent Returns Home After Hung Jury in His Second-Degree Murder Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A monthlong trial for a federal agent accused of murder in Hawaii ended in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict, ABC News reports. State Department Special Agent Christopher Deedy is headed home to Virginia, but he most likely will face another trial, ABC News wrote. “Mr. Deedy…
Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said to be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report
By Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich WASHINGTON –– When Sen. John McCain spoke during an Armed Services Committee hearing last year on security issues in the Western Hemisphere, he relayed a stark warning about the spread of Mexican drug cartels in the United States. “The cartels,” the Arizona Republican said, “now maintain a…
Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller III Breaks Tradition, Speaks Out About Challenges Facing Bureau
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Since taking the helm at the FBI just a week before the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks, Robert Mueller has managed to avoid the limelight. But now that he’s retiring after 12 years with the bureau, the FBI director is opening up about his service. Most recently, NPR reports, the decorated former…
FBI: Air Force Officer Accused of Breaking Lobbying Law with Lucrative Private Sector Job
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As an Air Force captain, Adam J. Pudenz oversaw contracts to provide boots to Afghan soldiers. Now Pudenz earns $40,000-a-month working for the company that was selling the boots, ABC News reports. The FBI accuses Carroll, an Iowa resident of violating a ban on representing companies that he oversees when he took…
Homeland Security Employee Placed on Paid Leave for Operating Racist, Anti-Gay Website
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee who was exposed for hosting a racist website that advocates for a race war was placed on paid administrative leave while the agency investigates, the Huffington Post reports on Monday. Ayo Kimathi, acquisitions officer for ICE, forecasts on his site, War on the Horizon, forecasted an “unavoidable, inevitable…
Homeland Security Veterinarian Is a Finalist for 2013 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Michelle Colby was a child, she wanted nothing more than to become a veterinarian, The Washington Post reports. She wended her way through school and studied at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Still, she wanted more and became the agriculture defense branch chief for the Department of Homeland Security’s…
Outgoing FBI Director Mueller III Speaks About How Sept. 11 Changed the FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Outgoing FBI Director Robert S Mueller III never imagined that his bureau would be consumed with the fight on terror. After all, Mueller started his job as director a week before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like,…